Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Wu County is indeed too small.

In terms of scale, even the wall-less city built with Ren De Academy as its center is now much larger than the small town of Wu County.

Liu Bei had thought about expanding Wu County a long time ago, but was dissuaded by Li Ji.

Now that Li Ji proposed to move the seat of government, Liu Bei also thought it made sense.

It is just a relocation of the capital, which requires more than just moving the governor's mansion there. The families of the civil and military officials and countless supplies and miscellaneous items also need to be moved.

By then, the number of people following Liu Bei would probably be tens of thousands, and the manpower and material resources consumed would be enough to wage a war.

Moreover, if Shouchun City is to be governed, it will inevitably need to be renovated, and all kinds of government offices, mansions, city defenses, etc. in the city may have to be rebuilt on a large scale.

Thinking of this, Liu Bei, who was used to living a hard life in the past, couldn't help but frowning. He simply summoned officials in the governor's mansion including Gu Yong, Jian Yong, Mi Zhu and others to discuss and calculate.

When Mi Zhu and a group of minor officials made a preliminary calculation of the amount of money and grain needed to move the capital to Shouchun, Liu Bei's brows were almost furrowed.

Although Liu Bei was now very wealthy and had full warehouses of money and grain, he felt that it would be better to store the money and grain for Li Ji as war reserves than to waste it like this.

Especially in the four counties of southern Jing, besides the rebellion by the southern barbarians, preparations had to be made for the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.

This made Liu Bei feel that the more money he could save, the better, so that Li Ji, who was on the front line, would not run out of money and food.

Therefore, Liu Bei wrote a letter back to Li Ji in a very impressive manner, in which he listed many reasons why he thought it was unnecessary to move to Shouchun, with the word "save" being the most prominent.

Li Ji's reply was also very simple, and he only wrote two big words.

"Don't save it!"
With the gold and silver mineral reserves in Yingzhou, Liu Bei would never be able to spend them all in his lifetime.

The only thing that needs to be worried about is how to reasonably allow large amounts of gold and silver to flow into the rest of the class without causing the depreciation of precious metals such as gold and silver.

And under the circumstance that the basic grain production can keep up, large-scale construction is undoubtedly a reasonable way to spend money and allow gold and silver to flow smoothly to the lower classes through paid labor.

In the past, large-scale construction projects were often not a good term, and even buried countless corpses of laborers and overwhelming public resentment.

But the reason for this is that, in the final analysis, the vast majority of large-scale construction projects are free, and countless laborers have died of exhaustion. How could there be no public resentment?

But if it's paid...

oi, don’t underestimate the hardworking Han people!
As long as the money and food are in place, the treatment will be preferential.

Not to mention building a large-scale project in Shouchun City, even polishing the Great Wall is possible.

After receiving Li Ji's extremely concise reply that revealed a hint of silence, Liu Bei couldn't help but slam the table on the spot and said to Xiahou Bo.

"Zi Kun is so rude. He only replied with two words and didn't even address me as lord. He is simply... doing whatever he wants!"

Xiahou Bo didn't say anything, just listened silently, knowing that this was not something he should interrupt.

Immediately, Liu Bei took out a piece of white paper with a serious face, and after thinking for a long time, he picked up the pen and started writing.

Xiahou Bo glanced at it casually out of the corner of his eye and found that Liu Bei had written three big words: "I know".

However, after finishing writing, Liu Bei thought for a while, crumpled up the paper and threw it into the brazier beside him, then took another piece of white paper and started writing.

This time Liu Bei wrote it more concisely, with one word missing, leaving only the two words "知矣".

Afterwards, Liu Bei folded the papers, put them into the envelope, sealed it with lacquer himself, and muttered to himself.

"You must let Zikun know how angry I am."

Immediately, Liu Bei handed the letter to Xiahou Bo and said, "Send this secret letter to Xiangyang and give it to Zikun as soon as possible."

"Yes." Xiahou Bo replied.

However, just as Xiahou Bo turned around and was about to take the letter, Liu Bei called Xiahou Bo again, took the letter back, and shook his head.

"Zi Kun is busy with many things in Jingzhou. I'm afraid he doesn't have any free time. It's better not to let him be distracted by trivial matters..."

After a pause, Liu Bei turned to Xiahou Bo and gave instructions.

"Send someone to Xiangyang tomorrow to deliver some of Zikun's favorite food and supplements."

Afterwards, Liu Bei once again summoned his officials to discuss the arrangements for relocation of the capital.

To this end, not only Wu County needs to make preparations in advance, but Shouchun must also immediately begin repairs in all aspects.

It was decided to officially move to Shouchun two months later, and the preliminary estimate was that the process of moving from Wuxian to Shouchun would take about one month.

Therefore, Gu Yong had to set off immediately to Shouchun to coordinate the arrangements, and everyone in Wu County who would be moving to Shouchun also needed to start preparing.

Of course, Li Ji didn't need to worry about the countless trivial matters involved in the relocation of the capital.

Li Ji only needed to pay attention to the progress of the relocation occasionally. What occupied most of Li Ji's energy was the chaos that broke out in the four counties of southern Jing.

With the help of the well-developed water network, one month is enough for the generals to lead their troops to reach the four counties in southern Jing.

Battle reports were constantly sent back to Li Ji.

The four generals Huang Zhong, Zhang Fei, Wen Pin and Wei Yan have different personalities and styles of using troops.

As Li Ji expected, it was Wei Yan who first put down the rebellion.

The chaos in Guiyang County was the least. After Wei Yan led his army to Guiyang County, he did not assist the local government in defending the city, but used dangerous and strange tactics as usual.

After Wei Yan had clearly identified the main settlements of the rebellious barbarians, he led his troops to attack the largest settlement of the barbarians.

After luring the rebellious barbarians to rush back for help, Wei Yan set an ambush halfway, caught the barbarians off guard, killed two thousand of them on the spot, and sent their heads to various cities in Guiyang County as a deterrent.

From then on, the rebellion in Guiyang County gradually subsided in less than a month.

When seeing this battle report, Li Ji couldn't help but frown slightly.

Considering that the barbarians were familiar with the terrain, Wei Yan's action was undoubtedly too risky.

If the barbarians accidentally discovered Wei Yan's whereabouts in advance, the 5,000 Han troops would most likely be surrounded by the barbarians in the deep mountains and forests.

"Perhaps, if Wei Yan is allowed to lead an army alone in the future, he will need a military advisor who can fill in the gaps."

"Otherwise, if others find out Wei Yan's gambling style of stealing and cheating, they will take advantage of him and something bad will happen sooner or later."

Li Ji thought secretly.

Compared with Wei Yan's adventurous style, Wen Pin is at the other extreme.

After arriving in Lingling County, Wen Pin directly stationed in the city and adopted the strategy of building strong defenses and clearing the fields, and his defense was as strong as a rock.

He fought several battles with barbarians of all sizes, and with the help of the city's defense, he defeated the Lingling barbarians so badly that they had no temper at all.

After pacifying the Guiyang barbarians, Wei Yan was eager to make progress. After leaving two thousand troops in Guiyang County to assist in the defense, he led three thousand troops to move to Lingling County.

It is expected that once Wei Yan and Wen Pin join forces, it will not be difficult to pacify the Lingling Barbarians, who are quite large in size. (End of this chapter)